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Don't worry about PSD2, your APIs are open anyway

PSD2, the European regulations for Open Banking, is designed to allow a more open and competitive Financial Services sector across the EU. There are pages and pages of information on managing the mark...

02 Aug 2018
Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Shailendra Malik

Gamification of Lifestyle Apps

Gamification is not new. In fact, the idea of rewards owes its massive success to games and their complex rewarding mechanisms. Be it the newer Mobile games like Brawl Stars and their most successful ...

02 Aug 2018
Digital Banking Trends
James Wooster

Does RPA fit into your processes?

I’ve had an epiphany. Sadly, it’s about IT stuff – but I thought I would share it anyway! More specifically, it’s about Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and when to use it. As you will see below, sce...

01 Aug 2018
Digital Insurance Trends
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5 Ways to Improve Employee Experience and Engage Millennials

How to evolve and develop the ideal workplace for today and tomorrow Every generation has different expectations about what constitutes a good employee experience. In a landscape where specific tech

01 Aug 2018
Millennial Banking
Keith Stonell

The challenge of pricing cyber risk - does it feel like nailing jelly to the wall?

According to the Allianz Risk Barometer 2018 business owners consider cyber incidents to be the second greatest threat to their organisations – rising from third place in last year’s survey. Cyber th...

01 Aug 2018
Shailendra Malik

How Lifestyle Apps help Banks

In my last post I explained the potential of Banks investing their effort to build Lifestyle Apps and create an ecosystem that helps everyone. The question remains, will people move away from generic...

31 Jul 2018
Digital Banking Trends
Romal Almazo

INITIAL COIN OFFERING: AN INVESTOR'S GUIDE

This paper is the second installment of a two-part series on Initial Coin Offerings. In this paper, I explore what a good ICO looks like and identify the red flags that you need to look out for when c...

31 Jul 2018
Digital Asset Class (DAC)
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Why Aren't Regulators Fixing MFA Security Standards?

The use of biometric identifications systems in the financial sector is mushrooming as banks, credit card companies, and other institutions adopt them to improve security. Whilst regulations, like the...

31 Jul 2018
Information Security
Sufyan Khan

Preparing data functions for the 2017 stress tests

In November 2016, the Bank of England (BoE) published the results of its 2016 banking stress tests which measured the resilience of UK’s major banks’ balance sheet in adverse scenarios. These incorpor...

31 Jul 2018
Banking Regulations
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Huge money and reputation. Why does the market need institutional investors?

Large investment funds, banks and other traditional financial organizations are getting closer to the blockchain technology. Under a certain scenario, they may bring this sphere to a new level. An imp...

31 Jul 2018
Financial Services Regulation
Adriana Screpnic

Trends in financial services

31 Jul 2018
Trends in Financial Services
Shailendra Malik

Banks' next frontier - Lifestyle Apps

Banks claim to understand the customer’s the best. The argument goes follow the money to know the priorities. People may claim differently but they usually buy what they feel hold the right value and ...

30 Jul 2018
Digital Banking Trends

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